The Growth Of Online Dating - Why Is It So Popular?

Let's face it, if I went back even ten years, using a traditional Dating Agency had a certain stigma to it. We had a feeling that we had failed as people if we had to resort to the help of an Agency to get us a date. So what has changed, and why is Online dating one of the big growth industries of the new Century?

The computer has changed lots of things in our lives, but none more so than the way we communicate to each other. It is therefore a logical conclusion that we should use our new communicative techniques online, to search for a partner. The popularity of the internet however is not the only reason for this phenomenal growth; we have to link it with the increase in the "fear factor," of going out and looking for partners in the real world of clubs and discos. It has never been that easy to find love in the Disco or Bar, but back in the 1980's for example that was the only way to do it. Ok, I accept that lots of romances were stared in the workplace, but choices of partners were to say the least somewhat limited.

The growth and popularity of Dating online is therefore linked to the dangers of looking for partners in the real world, and the ease of using your computer. Online you can search for partners from the comfort of your own home, or if you are lazy, just post a profile and Waite for other members to contact you. If your profile has been constructed well, then you will be getting lots of people wanting to speak to you, and you can either go ahead and answer or choose to ignore them. This is a very logical and controlled way of finding a date, and makes discos and pubs seem very stone age.

So let's sum up the reasons for online dating popularity.

1 People are very wary of meeting new people face to face, and who can blame them.

2 Online dating is cheap, or even free, so is less expensive than going on a night out.

3 There are no embarrassing chat-up lines with online dating. You are in control at all times, and can choose not to respond, to respond by email or instant chat.

4 Online Dating pushes all the buttons when it comes to the human psyche, because we all love the feeling that someone is interested in us, and every day we can look at just how many people have looked-at our profiles.

So where will it all end-up? well, in the last ten years this method of dating has caused a revolution, and statistically one in three people have met their current partner online. Maybe in the future we will think it strange that someone met their partner in a Pub or Disco.

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